1. At the People's Commissariat of Food Supply, a Department of Workers' Food Inspection is established.

2. The Workers' Food Inspection has as its aim the living control of the composition and work of food supply organs — from the standpoint of their energy and the correspondence of their activity to the directives of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply and the general tasks of Soviet food supply policy — and influence upon these organs for the purpose of strengthening their work and correcting noticed deficiencies [in] it directly through directives or through the mediation of local Executive Committees, and where this proves insufficient, through the People's Commissariat of Food Supply.

3. For this purpose, the Workers' Food Inspection conducts actual verification of the procurement, transport, and distribution of products, submitting to the Bureau (§ 4) urgent reports on the results of inspections and monitoring the immediate elimination of noticed deficiencies.

4. At the head of the Department stands the Bureau of Workers' Food Inspection composed of:

1 — Member of the Collegium of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply,

5 — representatives of the Military-Food Bureau of the All-Russian Soviet of Trade Unions.

1 — Representative of the Organizational Department of the Food Commissariat.

5. The Bureau of Workers' Food Inspection directs the activity of the Workers' Inspection in the localities.

6. The Workers' Inspection in the localities at the Food Supply Organs is carried out:

a) by responsible Inspectors, recommended by the Military-Food Bureau, traveling to Food Supply organs.

b) by special detachments of Workers' Inspection sent to the localities,* composed of workers recommended by the same Organization, supplemented in necessary cases by Representatives of the Organizational Department of the Food Commissariat.

Note: The detachments of Workers' Food Inspection may involve witnesses from the local working population in inspections, and such involvement is obligatory in the control of distribution.**

Approved 5/XII 18        Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars: V. Ulyanov (Lenin).***

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* § 3 in its entirety was added at a session of the SNK and corresponds to § 1 of the draft resolution of the SNK on the question of the organization of Workers' food inspection (see p. 249). Ed.